• @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Hmm… The question is how reliable it is to hit and how much the operational costs are. I think a bullet is cheaper.

    • @ChonkyOwlbear
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      21 year ago

      The thing about a bullet, is someone has to shoot it. The crane could be set on a timer, so nobody has to feel guilty for pulling the trigger.

      • @CoffeeJunkie
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        11 year ago

        That’s a thought. 🙂

        Guilt for administering a death has been thought of before; that’s part of the reason why there’s a firing ‘squad’. You have however many people with lethal rounds, and however many people with dummy/blank rounds, so nobody knows for sure whose bullets were live & killed him.